Thread 16833242

PhDs open so many doors in life, it's like a complete cheat code. There's so many things you cannot do without a PhD.

>>16833242 (OP)
What are you researching quantum nukes?

>>16833268
Not a student of current events, are you?

>>16833278
What did I miss?

>>16833284
It's a /pol/ slide thread.
https://time.com/7272060/international-students-targeted-trump-ice-detention-deport-campus-palestinian-activism/

>>16833278
I'm a student of science

>>16833311
Good goy. Here's a treat.

>>16833242 (OP)
>There's so many things you cannot do without a PhD.`
Such as what?

>>16833268
gender studies applied to queer post-structuralist theory

>>16833397
confidently say that PhDs are worthless without anybody accusing you of sour grapes

>>16833463
They aren't worthless.

>>16833463
obvious bait

>>16833294
>slide threaon a science board. What are they sliding? Your cure for cancer? The moon landing mission that is going to happen any day now, but was also accomplished 80 years ago? Your bottom surgery? What?

>>16833242 (OP)
glad i didnt do a phd lmaoooooooo i wouldve been abducted or beocome jewish at 9 years old

>>16833242 (OP)
There are plenty of things you cannot do WITH a PhD.

>>16833242 (OP)
PhD opens up a lot of opportunities, but closes many others. From my experience it was much harder to get into industry compared to others in my cohort who got out after an MS.

>>16833294
Do science in your own countries?

>>16834560
PhD actually closes doors?

I didnt even get my bachelors because I got so hooked on partying and drugs I stopped waking up to go to class and it became a vicious cycle. then I did it all over again at a second college.

but I still like to come here and LARP that Im educated and intelligent because I still love physics and astronomy :(

>>16834946
you're suffering from success

>>16834943
Lots of them. People see PhD and assume you will A) be a smug twat who is unpleasant to work with and will B) are just looking for a temporary position and will ditch for something better at the first opportunity and C) means you are older than any of your prospective rivals with the same level of industry experience

>>16836678
>are just looking for a temporary position and will ditch for something better at the first opportunity
this is typical overqualification fear and I don't understand this behavior

>>16836705
What is there not to understand, from either side
>Employee has qualifications which typically facilitate getting job B at double the salary of job A. Employee would be a fool not to take job B if the opportunity arises
>Employer has to invest in paying every new employee for training/adjustment period of X months before becoming profitable. Employer would be a fool not to preferentially hire those employees they know have no other options so are more likely to stay for years, thus maximising training investment to productive return

>>16836887
What do you think about a PhD at a third class university even though your masters was from a first class university just because the job market has become shit now?

>>16833242 (OP)
>be at point in physics phd where red text in pic related occurs
>nothing happening
>no jobs
>no future
>fuck living on this gay earth
>ready to blow brains out

it appears to be more like
>>16833397
>>16834523
>>16834560
is true

>>16833242 (OP)
>There's so many things you cannot do without a PhD.

meh. most people probably dont want to do most of those things.

>>16837735
Sometimes they do

>>16834683
>still thinking in terms of man-made borders
Not very scientific of you

>>16833242 (OP)
pretty much. when it comes to careers the highest level degree is gonna get picked over the others.
I've tried for a lot of entry level jobs that just want a bachelor degree at minimum, and would see that they hired a person with a masters degree.

>>16840127
Industry stick men are snobby cunts on the down low. muh cheap labour.

>>16840127
What bout overqualification